Annaka Harris

When you were talking about your experience of looking at robots, it reminds me of how

I, for many years, have been looking at plants because the plant behavior – and actually, this is the example.

Maybe we'll just try it out.

It may not work.

This is an example I was thinking of recently because I was reading back on the work of Mark Jaffe, who did this research with pea tendrils.

I'm sure he did many other plant studies, but this is the one I was reading about.

And I'm hoping this analogy, I'll just set it up.

I'm hoping that this analogy will be something that we can keep coming back to as we move forward because, you know, as we shake up our intuitions and get confused and then we come back to our intuitions and say, no, that just can't be.

I think this analogy might be helpful.

Pea tendrils.

So a pea plant has these tendrils.

You can picture them.

They coil.

So...

I don't know what year this research was done.

I'm guessing in the 80s, but... But pea tendrils have been around long before that.

Yes, of course.

And the research may have happened long before the 80s.

Pea tendrils, as a system, generally, there are a few more things they can do, but generally they can...

behave in two ways.